Panchang in Huron, South Dakota, United States Wed 20 Nov 2024

The Moon gains on the Sun about 12° a day. Each 12° of lead is one tithi: 240°–252° is the 21st, Krishna Shashthi. A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise, 07:36 here. Panchami ended at 05:20, before it. Shashthi ends at 05:33 Thu, when the lead reaches 252°. The lead passed 180° at the full moon of 15 Nov, so the Moon is waning: Krishna paksha.

A day takes the tithi in force at its sunrise.

New Delhi · IST

Sunrise here, 06:47, came before Panchami ended at 16:50: this day reads Panchami.

Huron · UTC−6

Sunrise here, 07:36, came after Panchami ended at 05:20: this day reads Shashthi.

The night of Tue 19 Nov ran from sunset 17:01 Tue to sunrise 07:36, 14 h 35 m. Cut into 15 muhurtas of 58 m, its 14th is Brahma Muhurta, the one before the last.

Daylight here, 07:36 to 17:00, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 10 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The night here, 17:00 to 07:37 Thu, splits into 8 choghadiyas of 1 h 49 m. Their names follow a fixed order that starts from the weekday, and each name is counted good, neutral or bad.

The fixed stars divide the Moon's path into 27 nakshatras of 13°20′, each in 4 padas of 3°20′. Pushya spans 93°20′–106°40′; the Moon entered its pada 1 at 93°20′. It leaves at 04:05 Thu, for Ashlesha.

Add the Sun's and the Moon's places among the stars: 214.5° + 95.7° = 310.2°. The sum, cut into 27 parts of 13°20′, gives the yoga: 306°40′–320°00′ is the 24th, Shukla. It ends at 00:31 Thu, then Brahma.

A karana is half a tithi: 6° of the Moon's lead, so the first half of Shashthi is Garaja and the second Vanija. Garaja runs until 17:20, when the lead reaches 246°; Vanija until 05:33 Thu.

A Hindu day runs from one sunrise to the next, not midnight to midnight. This one runs 07:36 to 07:37 Thu, so the hours after midnight still belong to Budhawara.

An amanta month runs from new moon to new moon and takes its name from the rashi the Sun is in at the new moon that begins it: Tula gives Kartika. The Sun enters Vrishchika on 15 Nov, inside the month. The next new moon, 1 Dec, finds it in Vrishchika and begins Margashirsha.

A purnimanta month runs from full moon to full moon, so its waning half comes first. It shares its name with the amanta month that its second half falls in: the new moon of 1 Dec, with the Sun in Vrishchika, begins Margashirsha. Until then this Krishna paksha reads Margashirsha here, and Kartika in the amanta count.

A samvat year begins with Chaitra, the month whose new moon finds the Sun in Meena: 8 Apr 2024, 13:20 Mon. Since then the Sun has moved 219.3° round the stars. Vikram Samvat numbers that year 2081; Shaka Samvat numbers it 1946.